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It's another silly-o'clock work night - and I've not even finished it! Granted I had twice as much work today, but I had no problem at all working on the children's school books - it's the academic stuff that I'm struggling to keep my focus on. Waaah...

Oh well. *g* Icons!

Doyle face blue (enednoviel) Doyle face blue (enednoviel) Doyle face blue (enednoviel)


This is the first icon in my list, which goes chronologically, that I didn't make myself! It's actually not the first one I got from someone else, which I remember really clearly was from [livejournal.com profile] probodie, but it's probably the second! It was made by [livejournal.com profile] enednoviel, one of my first lj-friends, and I loved the colour, and just something about Doyle's expression struck me as... I don't know. It struck me! *g* And I still do like it for those very reasons, and I suppose the only reason I don't use it much any more is that it's such an intense serious expression, and I sort of try to tie my icon in with whatever I'm posting about... and clearly it's been a long time since I wanted to be serious and intense! *g*

And before I go to bed, cos I was just looking back at my lj to see if I could spot the first non-mine icon I used (didn't find it yet, but lots of defaults, so I must have taken [livejournal.com profile] probodie's icon off (though I've got lots of her other ones). Though I could have sworn... well. Anyway - look what I found - the place I was on this day, thirteen years ago... The Being Back Ramble. My word but life was more interesting back then! Not that I didn't enjoy being at the village church fete last weekend, and I'm looking forward to Ikea this weekend, but still... icebergs floating around Greenland!
DoyleFace BD deshabille Doyle face blue (enednoviel)

Date: Saturday, 31 August 2019 04:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cim3745.livejournal.com

That's a really intensive icon, and I love this serious-looking Doyle.
It's impressing.

Date: Sunday, 1 September 2019 10:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] byslantedlight.livejournal.com
It really is intense, isn't it! I remember how it just caught me when I first saw it, and I wanted it straight away! *g*

Date: Saturday, 31 August 2019 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com
Another lovely one! (And yay educational texts - I've had fun (well, for a certain value of fun *g*) flagging up issues (of unthought/unexamined bias) in those a couple of times :-))))) )

Date: Sunday, 1 September 2019 10:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] byslantedlight.livejournal.com
It is lovely, isn't it! I like my icons - and I love that people were so clever that they could make them! *g*

I did have to flag up more issues of apparently unthought/unexamined bias than I'd expected to in these days in the first book of the four, but sadly they're artwork-embedded, so they can't be addressed at this stage. I'm hoping that flagging them will make the editors/publishers/commissioning-editors think about such things next time though... But it was so lovely to be doing these books instead of the dry academic work all day long. Four hours went in a flash, whereas my usual academic work drags out over twelve hours because I just can't focus so well on it. I wish I was better at marketing myself to try and get more of the former work!

Date: Saturday, 31 August 2019 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] paris7am.livejournal.com
His lips... Good God, what a gorgeous expression.

Looking back at your post - how can it be so long ago, so far away, and yet seem like yesterday? So difficult to encounter beloved people no longer with us, but also lovely to remember all the fun we had. And you - intrepid adventurer, you!

Date: Sunday, 1 September 2019 10:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] byslantedlight.livejournal.com
Yes - his lips! They don't stand out any more than his eyes or nose, and yet... they do! And if I think about him turning that expression on Bodie... oh! *G*

Oh, and yes to all that about the past too. It was thirteen years ago, and if I go back thirteen years from then I'd only just come out of my only long-term relationship, and I was still teaching, and I hadn't even been to Alaska yet, let alone left it, and then thirteen years before that I was still at school in Australia and had never been to the northern hemisphere, and... and yet this last thirteen years feels like it was just a sleep away...

But it is nice to remember all the Pros-y fun we had, isn't it! *g*
Edited Date: Sunday, 1 September 2019 10:19 am (UTC)

Date: Sunday, 1 September 2019 02:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sc-fossil.livejournal.com
I made this one eons ago! That particular screen shot is a fav of mine. :)

Date: Monday, 2 September 2019 08:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] akin16sk.livejournal.com
speaking of icons, I love yours :))

Date: Monday, 2 September 2019 01:39 pm (UTC)

Date: Sunday, 1 September 2019 09:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shooting2kill.livejournal.com
Doyle always looks so alive and intense. Fabulous!

Hold Your Breath, Sunshine


A ship is safe in the harbour - but that's not what ships are for.

~o~

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. (Sarah Williams)

~o~

Could've.
Should've.
Would've.
Didn't. Didn't. Didn't.

~o~

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